47 Key Verbs

Question 1

-algia

Answer 1

pain

Question 2

• audi

- audio

Answer 2

hear, hearing

Question 3

bio

Answer 3

to live

Question 4

cau-

caus-

Answer 4

to burn

Question 5

-centesis

Answer 5

puncture, perforate

Question 6

• clas
• clast
• clasis

Answer 6

to smash, breakdown

Question 7

• duct

- doch-

Answer 7

canal, or to draw

Question 8

-dynia

Answer 8

pain

Question 9

-ecta

ectasis

Answer 9

to dialte

Question 10

-edem-

Answer 10

to swell

Question 11

• ethes/ia

- phoro-

Answer 11

to feel (physical)
to sense (mental)

Question 12

• fiss

- schiz

Answer 12

to split

Question 13

• flec

- flex

Answer 13

to bend

Question 14

flu-

flux-

Answer 14

to flow

Question 15

-gen

Answer 15

to produce, to form, to develop, begin

Question 16

• iatr-
• iatr/o-
• therap/y

Answer 16

to treat, cure

Question 17

-kine-
-kino-
kinesio-
-praxia

Answer 17

to move

Question 18

• liga-

- desis

Answer 18

to bind

Question 19

-o/log/y

Answer 19

to study

Question 20

• ly

- lysis

Answer 20

to break up, dissolve

Question 21

• morph-

- morpho

Answer 21

form, shape

Question 22

olfact-

-osmia

Answer 22

to smell

Question 23

-op-
opt-
-opto-
-opsy

Answer 23

vision, sight, to see

Question 24

palpit-

Answer 24

to flutter

Question 25

• par-
• part
• partus-
• toci-

Answer 25

to labor

Question 26

-pep-

Answer 26

to digest

Question 27

-pexy

Answer 27

to fix

Question 28

• phag-

- phago-

Answer 28

to eat

Question 29

-phas-

Answer 29

to speak, utter

Question 30

-phil-

Answer 30

to like/love, affinity for

Question 31

-phob-

Answer 31

to fear

Question 32

-phrag-

Answer 32

fence off, to wall off

Question 33

• plas-
• plasm
• plast/y

Answer 33

repair, to form, grow

Question 34

-pleg-

Answer 34

to be paralyzed

Question 35

-pnea

Answer 35

to breathe

Question 36

-phono-

Answer 36

voice or sound

Question 37

-poie-

Answer 37

to make

Question 38

-ptosis

Answer 38

to fall, droop

Question 39

-o/rrhagia

Answer 39

to burst forth, pour

Question 40

-o/rrhaphy

Answer 40

to suture

Question 41

-o/rrhea

Answer 41

to flow, discharge

Question 42

-o/rrhexis

Answer 42

to rupture

Question 43

-therap/y

Answer 43

heal, treat, cure

Question 44

-tomy

Answer 44

to cut, in/cise

Question 45

• troph

- troph/y

Answer 45

to nourish, to develop, formation process

Question 46

-volvo-

Answer 46

to turn, twist

Question 47

-vulvo-

Answer 47

to cover